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Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 11:45 PM 11/21/00 +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
>
> >Given that it isn't a valid C identifier, yes... Unless you're
> >using VAXC or DECC of course, which was your point I assume ;-)
>
> Odd. The Dec C docs don't mention it as a problem, and both Dec C on VMS
> and GCC on a linux box take it without complaint. They might've slipped it
> in as valid in the final ANSI standard or something. (I can't dig up my
> ANSI K&R to check, unfortunately)
It's certainly not valid in the ANSI standard. From the gcc manual page:
-ansi Support all ANSI standard C programs.
This turns off certain features of GNU C that are
incompatible with ANSI C, such as the asm, inline
and typeof keywords, and predefined macros such as
unix and vax that identify the type of system you
are using. It also enables the undesirable and
rarely used ANSI trigraph feature, and disallows
`$' as part of identifiers.
Tom
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